no, vito unfortunately did not make it to mr. switzerland - only runner up - i.e. vice-mr.
but he is very good - and awfully good to look at too

oh - he was also hair-stylist of the year - absolutely no vice in that one

Mr Switzerland is your hairdresser? Well I can't beat that. Enjoy your morning. Rita.X

rita, yes it is - i think am not very good at pattern naming - i just see something somewhere and a while later when i try out things these come to mind...
the swirls are very easy to do - not much thinking so sewing is quite quick and i can do so while chatting with friends, listening to the tv, listening to a good book, on the train while trying not to miss my stops... tomorrow morning at the hairdresser? well actually - i'm hoping to take out and move those squares on the strippers quilt that ended up in the wong place - a good hairdresser job - should keep me busy while i wait for the color to set and the meche to set, and the cut - i tend to spend a whole morning at the hairdresser when i go - but i love those mornings - might it have to do with the fact that my hairdresser was runner up for mr. switzerland about 10 years ago or so

Cathe, we all need to gripe once in a while - your history is part of your now - the important thing is that you got rid of him (and your ex-friend too) and ARE HAPPY now. hope health is better and you can enjoy some fabric-play !

Oh Lotti, you have done so much by hand! Amazing. Is that a snail trail? Now I am going to have to try that too! Oh this is so much fun. Can't wait to get back home on sunday! Rita.

Hello everyone.
Lorene, I love your blocks. I really like the red centers. If I ever get time to cut strips I want to use a red center.
Lotti, I really like your design and the black/white fabrics with the red centers. I'm going to use your idea some
time for my Niece but with purple centers, her favorite colors.
I know that none of you will believe this, but I started quilting in 1980 and lost all my finished quilts, UFO's, and huge
stash because of a divorce. I had to leave everything behind when I left Arizona and moved to Oregon. I thougt
it was safe in storage. My ex and his new girlfriend, (my bestfriend!!) had a yard sale and sold everything. They
sold my (ugly floor lamp) an OTT-Lamp, $200.00 at the time for $2.00. I sure hope a quilter or needleworker
bought it.
Anyway, things always work out the way God plans because I am remarried and have never been happier in my
life. Oh I forgot, I did get a few quilt related items a year later, including my Pfaff machine. It was irreplaceable
for me at the time.
Of course I have been buying fabric but have been really sick the last year and have only finished one project.
So, I only have 2-1/2" strips in batiks. I had written Gyleen to tell her I didn't have any scraps and then I
remembered these. Hopefully, in the next week I can get a few blocks sewn together. I am trying to finish my
HST quilt.
Sorry for the past history but guess I needed to write about it this morning.

Happy Quilting,
Cathe

Lotti, they are wonderful! Compliments on your swirly pineapples! Renata

rehak wrote:
i certainly don't mind - and i probably borrowed it from someone else - after all similar things have been around for ever and ever.
although i tried out a few different things, including just taking what comes... i wanted this to be a bit more controlled...

Lotti, the swirls look great!

WOW! Lotti, your swirls are awesome!!

Lotti -

I really love what you did with the swirls! What a great idea!!

My current "make a few blocks here and there" quilt is a Judy Martin log cabin quilt. I'll have to wait until I finish the blocks for that one before jumping into pineapple blocks. But when I do, I might borrow your swirl idea, if you don't mind.

Nancy

this is part of what i've been doing on the go since saturday

as i spent a few days in the mountains visiting friends, i had time on the trains, time sitting on the sofa chatting while the weather happened outside, and we've even discovered, that the finished quilt will go perfectly in my friends' living room once its done.
although they live in a chalet, they have a very modern bright red sofa & chair set and as most of their other stuff is black - this will be perfect.
i now want to get photos of all their dogs and cats together and print them on fabric to include in the quilt
hope to get it done by christmas - as it's an "on-the-go" and therefore everything done by hand job - it will probably take me that long
but will certainly keep me busy while i'm out and about this year

Rita that is a great idea! I decided to do the pineapple blocks so just continued on. If I do one or two at a time, I can fill that ziploc and put them together later.

But Nancy, the thing is, don't you have loads of scraps lying around either in bins or bags or baskets after each quilt you make? What I do is put my scraps into ziplock bags with a label on the front e.g. 2 1/2" strips, triangles, HSTs, squares, etc., so the scraps are just lying there waiting to be used. It's amazing how quickly these bags have become filled up. When I am between projects or if I am frustrated by one that I am in the middle of I go to the scraps bags and make a pineapple. The great thing about these is that when a block is finished it will fit perfectly into a big ziplock bag and there it will stay until I can add more to it. I am not in any hurry to make a large quilt I am just having fun using up the scraps. My only definite decision is that I am going to make all the centre's the same colour. And even that's easy because you could just use a jelly roll strip or an extra length of binding.
This should be a guilt free exercise because we are actually doing something constructive with all those left-overs (and boy do we all have a lot of left-overs!).

Robin, we are all hoarders of fabric and scraps. My rule of thumb is that if it's not big enough for me to make an applique flower or leaf out of it's too small to stay so it goes in the bin. So I end up with two bins side by side - one for the real waste and one for the maybe waste. The real waste then goes into a basket I have put aside specially for things that are just too small to use again but they can still be sent off to fabric recycling so there is really no waste at all.

Happy pineappling! Rita.